Re: duplicating setup machine
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, John Chambers wrote: > What are the easy ways to duplicate an existing > setup debian machine to other machines? There are (as usual with Linux) a number of different ways to do this. One quick and dirty way that I like is to boot off of something like Tomsrtbt floppy or Linuxcare's Bootable Business Card. You can download the ISO for the BBC at: www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd The bootable business card (which can be burned into one of those business card sized CDRs) is a pretty decent rescue disk. It isn't perfect, but it has many of the commands that you'd want on such a beast. You can burn a copy of the BBC, boot off of it, start up networking (trivial-network-setup I think - just type trivial and hit tab - ahh, a real shell!) - which will ask you if you want to obtain an IP address via DHCP. It also prompts you whether you want to install ssh (which it gets remotely via wget). You are in a perfect situation to partition the local hard drive (take your pick: cfdisk, fdisk or sfdisk). sfdisk is great for automating partitioning (you pass start cylinder, number of cylinders, type (L - linux, S - swap, etc). Definitely do a man sfdisk on a real system first (BBC does not have man pages AFAIK). Then, once your partitioning is as you like it, you can use something like rsync to replicate from another machine. Or in a much simplier fashion you can use something like tar or cpio via ssh. Although the dpkg --get/set-selections is awesome, you don't get all the other things you need to set up in order to have a working system. FYI, if you do transfer the entire machine using tar or cpio make sure you do an apt-get clean to clean out the local copy of the retrieved .deb files - otherwise you'll be copying quite a bit more than you may expect. If you want/need more details, feel free to contact me. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpNIX - Simply geek tested, mother approved bandwidth
Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter
"Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. > I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been > worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some > rpms or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff. IIRC, both rpm and dpkg are specifically supposed to keep their hands off of /opt and /usr/local; they are supposed to be user only. =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Re: How do I do an ftp install?
If you have not yet been to the Debian site, here's a good place to get installation help: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install Basically, you download the Debian base system. Then configure your Internet connection and connect to the big package source in the sky. Then you can easily download and install anything you want. -jeff On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:04:03PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I would be very grateful for any pointers to doing an ftp install of > Debian - I have a PCI ISDN card (AVM) BTW so this would probably > complicate matters. > > I can't find any documentaion detailing what I would have to do so a > reference to a web page or other source of info would be gratefully > received. > > Many thanks. > > > -- > Phillip Deackes > Using Storm Linux > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: installing MATLAB
Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can > not > get started. I get an error message: > can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it > in /usr/X11R6 but that did not help. > > I would appreciate any suggestions as to what to try next. I don't know if this is the problem, but there are two packages which provide libXt --- I think!!! There is xlib6g which is the usual one that is installed --- it is for libc6. Then there is xlib6 (without the g) which is found in section "oldlibs" and is for libc5. Now I could be wrong, but I think Matlab might be libc5 based, in which case you will need to install xlib6. (You can have both xlib6g and xlib6 installed I believe.) I'm no expert, so no guarentees this will work, but it's the best I can think of. Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Re: Console new mail notification
Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter > messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all > mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in > /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. Is > there any way to configure bash to check in different directories > for mail? Yes, see the bash manual. You set $MAILPATH to a colon seperated list of filenames, which should be checked for new mail. Furthermore, you've to set 'mailwarn' with 'shopt', if it's unset. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll
I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by C:\etax2000_1.exe not found Now I thought kernel32 was a builtin thing. That's what is in the wine.conf. Any ideas on what is wrong? Thanks, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]
Hello all, I was hoping if any of you know the solution to the following problem reported to me by email: - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:27:35 +0200 (CEST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: mysql-server:15 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mysql.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 - End forwarded message - I get this mail daily. The error started to occur when I did an upgrade from potato to woody. Any help is much appreciated :) -- Remco Rijnders, ICQ: 760542 | Linux adanidas 2.2.16 is up 17 days, 21:18 http://uss-centauris.org/ | Reporter: Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Phone:(+31) 70 3467809 | Western Civilization? Cellular: (+31) 6 22091723 | Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
Re: Console new mail notification
Sure you can. Here's mine: MAILPATH='/home/rino/Mail/IN.debian-user?Mail has arrived for debian-user':'/var/mail/rino?Mail has arrived' Be vewy careful about the tick marks as it is very confusing. By default, your mails are checked when you login and then every sixty seconds. --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: "Aaron Brashears" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 4:39 AM Subject: Console new mail notification > I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter messages into appropriate mailboxes. > However, now that almost all mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. > Is there any way to configure bash to check in different directories for mail? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: new machine: what's wrong?
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:41:10PM -0400, Jack wrote: > Frustrated with my new machine. It's a self-assembled machine and it's > the first one I've made. (PIII, PC133, 128M mem) > > Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk, which has Win98, Win2k, > Debian installed on it. > > Win98 could be booted into DOS mode just fine. Win98 itself (even safe > mode) and Win2k crashed when boot. Debian failed either. Here's error > message I got from linux: > > -- > > Calibrating delay loop ... 1468.01 BogoMIPS > Memory 127064K/131008K available (1016k Kernel code, 416K reserved, > 1680k data, 60k init, OK bigmem) > Dentry hash table entries: 262144(order 9, 2048k) > Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072(order 7, 512k) > Page cache hash table entries: 32768(order 5, 128k) > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 87fe15a8 > current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 > *pde = > Oops: > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010[] > EFLAGS: 00010283 > eax: ebx:87fe1560 ecxc024cc84 edx c01d57c0 > esi:c01d20d7 edi:c01d57c1 ebpc7f317a0 esp: c0229f90 > ds 0018 es 0018 ss:0018 > Process swapper(pid:0, processs nr:0, stackpage: c0229000) > stack: .. >.. (numbers) > Call Trace: [<6106000>] [] > [] [] > Code: 8b 73 48 8b 7c 24 38 fc ac > ae 75 08 84 c0 75 88 31 c0 eb 04 > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! > In swapper task - not syncing > > -- [...] > ps. the memory works fine on my old machine, although the old > motherboard only supports pc100. But your memory does support PC133? Maybe it just claims to support it. Don't laugh - the german Computer magazine "c't" tested a bunch of RAMs to check if the SPD was programmed correctly. On http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctspd.shtml they got a nice tool to check your's. Of course it's in german but if you want to I would be able to translate the important stuff. This is not a commom memory test, but a test to see if the SPD is programmed according to the Specs. You could try to borrow some other memory (PC133!) and see if it does make any change. You could also try to boot a Floppy-Linuy like http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ http://www.toms.net/rb/ and see if they boot with your hardware. If all that doesn't help then I guess you have to check every single piece of hardware and replace it for testing. HTH, Phil
Re: a whole bunch of questions
"CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/ to > /root and starting X as root would then be okHowever, I am > unsure whether this would compromise certain security features, > etc This is also OK, but I would just set the equivalent environmentvariable. "export XAUTHORITY=/home/foo/.Xauthority" as root [Please learn how to quote in useful way. Don't just smack the mail you replay to at the end as a full quote] Ciao, Martin
Re: problems with ippp0
Stephan Kiesel wrote: > hello, > > i configured my isdn card as /dev/ippp0 and every 10 minutes without any > activity, ippp0 connect to my isp-nameserver. > I plan to configure this host as internet gateway. > I don´t want to start or stop the device everytime i´m going online. > > tia > Stephan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Sounds like sth. trys to make a DNS-Lookup. E.g. Netscape or Sendmail or sth. like this. You can try to find this out with iptraf, it logs your ip traffic, maybe you see who is trying to make this lookup causes the dialout. Another way, search at linuxhelp.com or sdb.suse.de (yeah, I know, not Debian, but it helps also sometimes) for a help to a topic like "Why is my pc making internet connects although I don't want him to" or similar. There you get other programs that causes DNS Lookups sometimes Hanno
Re: adding ftp user
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:27:46PM +1000, Mario Zuppini wrote: > Does anyone know on the topic of ftp security, how we can limit the ftp user > that log's in to stay in the home dir you assign them, and not be able to > move up the directory tree ? echo lusername >> /etc/ftpchroot that is all thats required for OpenBSD ftpd 0.3.2 which has a built in ls. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpBKLsBJbIiP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a whole bunch of questions
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:36:25AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > If you have got the correct modules loaded...you'd need to chmod your > /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to allow your username write access to the > devices.try chmod 666 on the above devices! no don't run chmod 666. run 'adduser yourusername audio' making the audio devices world readable/writable allows all users to listen to your attached microphone (if any) thus being able to eavesdrop on anyone in the room. only trusted users should have access to the audio devices. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgprsmiAxWQWm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run > on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: > > err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by > C:\etax2000_1.exe not found > > Now I thought kernel32 was a builtin thing. That's what is in the > wine.conf. Any ideas on what is wrong? I went through the same thing at the weekend. Just open up /etc/ld.so.conf and add this line: /usr/lib/wine Do the usual ldconfig afterwards. /etc/wine.conf has changed a fair bit recently so it would be a good idea to install the maintainer's version and edit it to your requirements instead of using your version which, if it is anything like mine, was probably created many, many versions ago. I am amazed at how close Wine is getting to running stuff like MS Publisher - it runs it very well but can't yet do OLE services. Hope this helps. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux
Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > "Scott" == Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. > > > I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been > > worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some > > rpms or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff. > > IIRC, both rpm and dpkg are specifically supposed to keep their hands > off of /opt and /usr/local; they are supposed to be user only. > debian packages never put anything in /usr/local other then empty directories. rpms very frequently toss junk in /usr/local though. (at least they did way back when i used redhat 5.x -> 6.0) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpfV1ARNohWz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll
On 24 Oct 00 06:23:38 GMT, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run >on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: > >err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by >C:\etax2000_1.exe not found > >Now I thought kernel32 was a builtin thing. That's what is in the >wine.conf. Any ideas on what is wrong? Builtin modules are implemented as shared libraries which are stored in /usr/lib/wine. Wine needs to be told where to find them, which is done in wine.conf. This is a fairly recent change, and requires changes to wine.conf. Did you update your wine.conf when you updated the package? If there is a wine.conf.dpkg-dist try renaming it to wine.conf and editing it to reflect your setup. If that doesn't do it try adding /usr/lib/wine to your ld.so.conf and running ldconfig. Frank
Re: firewall & masquerade script availability - 'potato'
> "Aaron" == Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... Aaron> By default, this package configures the system as a basic Aaron> forwarding firewall, with IP spoofing and stuffed routing Aaron> protection. The firewall will allow hosts behind the Aaron> firewall to get to the Internet, but not allow connections Aaron> from the Internet to reach the hosts behind the This is, unfortunately, NOT the case; look at the open bug reports for ipmasq. Any (almost any) host can connect to your machine. In one of the bug reports, there is a rules configuration that sets up a tight firewall. Note also that you have to adapt the "/etc/ip-down.d/50ipmasq" script to contain ipmasq --rules /etc/ipmasq/masq-down to get back to the default state when the connection is down. Aaron> firewall. However, ipmasq now features a very flexible Aaron> framework where you can override any of the predefined Aaron> rules if you so choose. It also allows you to control if Aaron> the rules are reinterpreted when pppd brings a link up or Aaron> down. Regards -- R. A. Hogendoorn E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information and Communication Technology Division Tel. +31-527-24-8367 National Aerospace Laboratory, The Netherlands Fax. +31-527-24-8210
Re: sources.list, installing via nfs.
Hi Will, hi all! > i can't believe that nobody saw the flaw, tho... The flaw? Unfortunately my printout of your apt-get-guide is 20 miles away... All right, I have to emulate an mirror. I thought it would be easier, cause it´s a usual thing to put your CDs on a harddisk. Somewhere I saw a HOWTO about building a debian-mirror, but I´ve lost the URL. Does somebody know it? > which will probably be > about seven > minutes after i send this missive.) Probably version 5.3.2 of this doc will be somewhere after my reply. However, I´ll try to copy my CDs together and see what will happen. Thx for your patience with a newbie :) > most of your clan don't advertise. (my sister-in-law > sure doesn't!) > > :) Clan? Quake? I´m a pretty lousy frag-collector. hypocrite, clanless advertiser. __ Do You Yahoo!? Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Yahoo! Mail auf Ihrem Handy? - http://mobil.yahoo.de
Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I went through the same thing at the weekend. Just open up > /etc/ld.so.conf and add this line: > > /usr/lib/wine > > Do the usual ldconfig afterwards. /etc/wine.conf has changed a fair bit > recently so it would be a good idea to install the maintainer's version > and edit it to your requirements instead of using your version which, if > it is anything like mine, was probably created many, many versions ago. Thanks for the help! I am guessing that the debian wine package should have added the line to /etc/ld.so.conf, but for some reason didn't --- is that right? I'm not familiar with how ldconfig etc works. I presume I just run ldconfig with no options (after changing the ld.so.conf file), is that right? > I am amazed at how close Wine is getting to running stuff like MS > Publisher - it runs it very well but can't yet do OLE services. Wine certainly has come a long way. I last had a serious go at using it a couple of years ago, with limited success. But from all reports it is much better now! > Using Storm Linux What is the advantage of Storm over normal debian? Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
Re: fullscreen video playback
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > > > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see > > > > Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video you're > > playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch the Xserver to that mode, I > > think. > > This is obviously not even close to a good hardware-based scale-and-dirther > > solution, but at least the movies will not be played in a small rectangle > > with huge black borders anymore :-) > > On a local newsgroup, someone said I need the "dbe" module loaded in order > to let SDL to video mode switching. What package provides the dbe module? > > I'm running Debian 2.2, with the xfree 3.3.6 package. I can't find any > relevant dbe files on my system. In fact, I don't even have the directory > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules on my computer. Well, SC3000 did that for me, under xf 3.3.6 and SDL in its default (debian) configuration. The only thing I did was to provide the proper videomodes (as in I can select them using Ctrl+Alt++ and Ctrl+Alt+-). I don't even know what a dbe module is :-) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
broken libc6/nss-modules in woody
Hello, after an "apt-get dist-upgrade" my system (woody) seems quite broken. Apache and lprng among other daemons/progs are no longer working: #/etc/init.d/apache start Starting web server: apache. /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 171: 1603 Aborted $HTTPD /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started #tail -f /var/log/apache/error.log apache: options.c:326: ldap_set_option: Assertion `( ( ld )->ld_options.ldo_valid == 0x2 )' failed. Also my system load average is shown (with top) as being around 1.2 although I can't see any obvious "culprit"-processes, and the system doesn't "feel" loaded. Apparently there are problems with libc6/nss-modules. Does anyone know when/if this libc6/nss-modules issue will be fixed? Is there any easy way to "downgrade" the libc6 stuff I broke with "apt-get dist-upgrade"? If I compile new software on my system in its present state, will the newly compiled software be inherently broken, or will its "brokeness" be fixed when the general issue with the libc6-stuff gets fixed? thanks for any help, Robert
Re: backup/restore partitions
Hi, On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Dr. Michael Koltai wrote: > I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that? > I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if possible > compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) and if I need > restore from this big file. If it possible I'd like to store this on a floppy > disk( or if it not possible on cd ). > I'd like to store this big file on an other device(like a bigger drive). There is a tool named Partition Image. I actually don't use it but it sounds good, they say it's like Norton Ghost. http://partimage.sourceforge.net/ Ciao, Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- .-'~~~-. .'o oOOOo`. | Timo Benk ;~~~-.oOo o`. | Germany `. \ ~-. oOOo. | `.; / ~. OO: | Fax/Voicemail:+49891488214215 .' ;-- `.o.' | ,' ; ~~--'~ | ; ;| [ASCII stolen from Mescalito Ted] _\\;_\\//_
Symlink compress --> gzip
Can anyone tell me how I do this? I need to create a symbolic link between the gzip in Debian and Redhats compress. I've been told that if I do this I will be able to install a particular piece of software correctly. Thanks Craig
Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?
Please keep list mail on list. on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi again, > > Thanks for getting back to me. Once I loaded the gsfonts, gv itself worked > fine on the *.ps.gz files. Ghostview doesn't. I just wanted to know if this > was normal? ie Is there a wrapper involved, as you suggested for gv and it's > default state is it doesn't read *.gz unlike gv which does? Not sure. I run gv fairly much exclusively, not Ghostview. > Thanks. > > Jonathan > > PS The gv loads xaw3dg and don't know how to remove it's effects, so I'm > back to > Ghostview for the moment... What do you mean by "don't know how to remove its effects"? Does xaw3dg interfere with other clients? -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpEbQfvny1R6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Symlink compress --> gzip
Odd. Any distro can use or unzip gzipped files. What exactly you want done? --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: Symlink compress --> gzip Can anyone tell me how I do this? I need to create a symbolic link between the gzip in Debian and Redhats compress. I've been told that if I do this I will be able to install a particular piece of software correctly. Thanks Craig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Symlink compress --> gzip
Long story but trying to load NDS Corporate Edition (best installed on Redhat 6.1 or 6.2) onto my Debian server. I've been given instructions by someone who has done it before. The shell script which installs the product makes some reference to compress which apparently Debian doesn't have and I guess that's why this person has suggested I use a symlink to gzip. I just have no idea how to do it. >>> "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24.10.2000 8:15:32 PM >>> Odd. Any distro can use or unzip gzipped files. What exactly you want done? --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: Symlink compress --> gzip Can anyone tell me how I do this? I need to create a symbolic link between the gzip in Debian and Redhats compress. I've been told that if I do this I will be able to install a particular piece of software correctly. Thanks Craig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Symlink compress --> gzip
I see. Well as root just do a "ln -s /usr/sbin/gzip /usr/sbin/compress" assuming gzip is in that directory. Just edit where appropriate. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Symlink compress --> gzip Long story but trying to load NDS Corporate Edition (best installed on Redhat 6.1 or 6.2) onto my Debian server. I've been given instructions by someone who has done it before. The shell script which installs the product makes some reference to compress which apparently Debian doesn't have and I guess that's why this person has suggested I use a symlink to gzip. I just have no idea how to do it. >>> "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24.10.2000 8:15:32 PM >>> Odd. Any distro can use or unzip gzipped files. What exactly you want done? --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: Symlink compress --> gzip Can anyone tell me how I do this? I need to create a symbolic link between the gzip in Debian and Redhats compress. I've been told that if I do this I will be able to install a particular piece of software correctly. Thanks Craig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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I try to work whit sendmail who use LDAP ROUTING method. I include the LDAPMAP with the file site.config.m4 into the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/devtools/Site/. I use the Build command in the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/sendmail/, it include the file described above, but after the include operation of NEWDB and LDAPMAP the job print the following lines: err.o: In function `errstring': err.o(.text+0x1490): undefined reference to `ldap_err2string' map.o: In function `ldapmap_start': map.o(.text+0x1d36): undefined reference to `ldap_open' map.o(.text+0x1dfc): undefined reference to `ldap_bind_s' map.o: In function `ldapmap_close': map.o(.text+0x1ed5): undefined reference to `ldap_unbind' map.o: In function `ldapmap_lookup': map.o(.text+0x226d): undefined reference to `ldap_search' map.o(.text+0x2389): undefined reference to `ldap_result' .. .. .. map.o(.text+0x2b9e): undefined reference to `ldap_msgfree' map.o(.text+0x2bee): undefined reference to `ldap_count_entries' map.o(.text+0x2c26): undefined reference to `ldap_msgfree' make: *** [sendmail] Error 1 I have already been included the OpenLdap and OpenLdap-dev libraries, the Umich Libraries but the error remains. I work with a Debian 2.1 release, sendmail v 8.11-1 and Openldap server 1.2.11. Thank's - Salve, il messaggio che hai ricevuto è stato inviato per mezzo del sistema di web mail Supereva. Se anche tu vuoi una casella di posta free visita il sito http://mia.supereva.it Ti aspettiamo! -
Re: Symlink compress --> gzip
That did the trick - thank you >>> "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24.10.2000 8:44:14 PM >>> I see. Well as root just do a "ln -s /usr/sbin/gzip /usr/sbin/compress" assuming gzip is in that directory. Just edit where appropriate. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Symlink compress --> gzip Long story but trying to load NDS Corporate Edition (best installed on Redhat 6.1 or 6.2) onto my Debian server. I've been given instructions by someone who has done it before. The shell script which installs the product makes some reference to compress which apparently Debian doesn't have and I guess that's why this person has suggested I use a symlink to gzip. I just have no idea how to do it. >>> "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24.10.2000 8:15:32 PM >>> Odd. Any distro can use or unzip gzipped files. What exactly you want done? --- who watches the watchmen? - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: Symlink compress --> gzip Can anyone tell me how I do this? I need to create a symbolic link between the gzip in Debian and Redhats compress. I've been told that if I do this I will be able to install a particular piece of software correctly. Thanks Craig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Using old libstdc library
I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 I've had a look at this distribution and Debian 2.2 uses libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 Is it possible to go backwards and am I likely to break anything? If I cannot go backwards should I start with the 2.1 distribution and work my way up? Thanks Craig
LDAP + Sendamail
Excusme but in the first mail I forgot the subject I try to work whit sendmail who use LDAP ROUTING method. I include the LDAPMAP with the file site.config.m4 into the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/devtools/Site/. I use the Build command in the directory /sendmail-8.11.1/sendmail/, it include the file described above, but after the include operation of NEWDB and LDAPMAP the job print the following lines: err.o: In function `errstring': err.o(.text+0x1490): undefined reference to `ldap_err2string' map.o: In function `ldapmap_start': map.o(.text+0x1d36): undefined reference to `ldap_open' map.o(.text+0x1dfc): undefined reference to `ldap_bind_s' map.o: In function `ldapmap_close': map.o(.text+0x1ed5): undefined reference to `ldap_unbind' map.o: In function `ldapmap_lookup': map.o(.text+0x226d): undefined reference to `ldap_search' map.o(.text+0x2389): undefined reference to `ldap_result' .. .. .. map.o(.text+0x2b9e): undefined reference to `ldap_msgfree' map.o(.text+0x2bee): undefined reference to `ldap_count_entries' map.o(.text+0x2c26): undefined reference to `ldap_msgfree' make: *** [sendmail] Error 1 I have already been included the OpenLdap and OpenLdap-dev libraries, the Umich Libraries but the error remains. I work with a Debian 2.1 release, sendmail v 8.11-1 and Openldap server 1.2.11. Thank's - Salve, il messaggio che hai ricevuto è stato inviato per mezzo del sistema di web mail Supereva. Se anche tu vuoi una casella di posta free visita il sito http://mia.supereva.it Ti aspettiamo! -
Re: Using old libstdc library
You are liable to break things if you do that. I'm not particularly sure which version has that software but if your software from Novell is not picky on the distro version then yes use slink or even hamm. -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 - Original Message - From: "Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: Using old libstdc library I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software >from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 I've had a look at this distribution and Debian 2.2 uses libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 Is it possible to go backwards and am I likely to break anything? If I cannot go backwards should I start with the 2.1 distribution and work my way up? Thanks Craig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
dialup problem
Hello, I have to access my internet service provider, send and recieve faxes from behind a mini-telephon station. If I pick up my phone, there is now long tone (dialing tone), so I have to press "0", then the long tone appears and then I can dial out. The problem is that the programs I am using (kppp,sendfax) seem to require the dialing tone before they make any action. How can I configure the progs so that they dial "0" first, detect the dial tone and only then actually phone? thanks in advance, Peter
First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?
Hi, I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and am finding lots about Debian I like better, not the least is dpkg/dselect/apt. One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages off the Web which replace those on the potato CD. I now want to re-install on a second machine from scratch and wonder how I can have dselect recognise the accumulated .debs. As far as I can see I need to create a Package.gz for dselect's benefit but don't really know where to look for information on how to do this. Is it possible? Cheers, Robin Collins
pop-authenticate before SMTP?
My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a SMTP server. I'm forced to look at another option... Yahoo has a SMTP server I can use, since I do have an account with them, but I have to pop-authenticate before I can use it. Does anyone know the best MTA to use that allows this? I've tried running fetchpop just before manually flushing the queue but it doesn't seem to like it... Right now I'm using Potato's exim. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:46:34AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote : > Does anyone know the best MTA to use that allows this? I've tried > running fetchpop just before manually flushing the queue but it > doesn't seem to like it... Right now I'm using Potato's exim. > This smtp-after-pop or smtp roaming is well supported with qmail and vpopmail. Check the vpopmail documentation how to set it up; its really straigtforward. If you need further assistance, dont hessitate to contact me private. kind regards, Markus -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0 -Today's methinks: Combine easy of vb and strength of perl-
Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a > SMTP server. I'm forced to look at another option... [...] Right > now I'm using Potato's exim. Then, why don't your let your local MTA deliver the mails directly, without a smarthost? moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
gs eats all memory
[ I'm not on debian-user, so please Cc me on replies ]. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? When printing any file (using lpr -Plp somefile), such as this one: -rw---1 bma bma 1278 Aug 21 01:01 klingon-programmer.txt and using redhat's printtool, gs consumes every drop of available memory, leaking approximately 4MB every 5 seconds. Even on my 256MB machine, it hoses the box in a short amount of time, and the machine finally begins croaking with messages like this in syslog: Oct 24 08:11:07 trantor kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... This problem has begun happening recently (within the past month or so), so I don't think it's gs' fault (last upload was in march or so). Versions of relevant software: ii gs 5.10-10Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib ii printtool 3.53-2 Printer administration tool. ii smbclient 2.0.7-3A LanManager like simple client for Unix. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpWAU2dd8lAc.pgp Description: PGP signature
aside: killfiles & mailing software
> > He's earned his way into my killfile. Fool me twice, shame on me > > And now mine. as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i've been told nothing beats gnus cheers damien pgpIy4dAP97Ee.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fullscreen video playback
> without proper video acceleration in X this is not > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see it's in X4. it's called the xvideo extention, and it's supported by a number of cards already, including my g400. the oss dvd player supports it, and it scales a video to 1280x1024 seemlessly. however, this only works for dvds. i'm still waiting for someone to support it with mpeg1 :) cheers damien pgpZejGo7DQiH.pgp Description: PGP signature
ftp - installation by newbie
Hi I am sorry that I am not responding, the correct way but I read tour mail in a beta-Linux where the mail is flaky. So here is my way: On a partition called /dev/hdb6, named /mnt/bettan/, I have a root directory called debian. From http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/ I download three files. These files match my computer set up, check the alternative compact. driver-1.bin rescue.bin root.bin In the same directory I copy the file base2_2.tgz, to be found two steps up in current. I make three floppies through. dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0, where you change the input file name. Then I restart the computer with rescue.bin in the floppy drive and when asked I put in the root.bin disk. The dialogs are pretty obvious if you understand that initiate means format. You have to mount the partition /dev/hdb6 as bettan. When later asked where the base is, the debian mounting rule is: /target/bettan/debian, this you may find if you read the fstab which is one option. I recommend that you fill in as many sources as possible, when you are asked to set up apt. One night when the traffic was very heavy on ftp.sunet, getting 3kB/s, I restated the installation and put http first and got 156kB/s as an average. regards guran
RPC Fails after apt-get upgrade
Hey, I recently updated my file server (running woody) and it looks like NFS is now broken. Actually, once I did the upgrade, all net services died, because for some reason it messed up my local IP addresses and everything broke. I have been able to get IP MASQ and stuff working again, so all of the computers on my lan can access the net, but file sharing is still failing. When I boot, and the system enters run level 2 I begin to get the following errors: portmap: RPC call returned error 111 RPC: task of released request still queued! RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) As a result of this none of my net shares are shared. Does anyone know what happened? The system was running woody before the upgrade, but it was not upgraded for several months before the upgrade. Thanks, -Pete --- Pete Foley | Open Source Software, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | s/bitchandmoan/fix --- pgpPTwW1EzQWa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software
Quoth Damien, > as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you > two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i've been told nothing beats gnus I'm not sure that mutt does filtering itself - it's usually a function of the MDA. It'll sort of depend on how you arrange to deliver your mail. Personally, I use maildrop (strongly recomend it, very nice little program), so I'd put something like: if (/^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/) exit in my ~/.mailfilter file. This would just silently drop any mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] into the bit bucket. If you are using qmail, you could put something like the following in your .qmail file: |preline bouncesaying "Go away!" except maildrop -d $USER and change the above exit line to "exit 100" the mail will bounce back to the sending telling them to "Go away!" (that's off the top of my head, I might have got the order wrong...). I believe that if you implement such a solution you should be able to get fetchmail to generate the bounce, but I haven't done this myself (as I control the upstream smtp server...). Of course, if you are using procmail or exim .forwards then your solution will be completely different (it often seems like I'm the only one in the *world* using maildrop, but that's cool...). I'm sure some knowledgeable person will help fill in the gaps. It's possible that you might be able to do it through the MUA (like mutt), but that's not the Unix Way (tm). cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead" pgpN7fS5sNaYq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Symlink compress --> gzip
"Craig Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Long story but trying to load NDS Corporate Edition (best installed on >Redhat 6.1 or 6.2) onto my Debian server. I've been given instructions >by someone who has done it before. The shell script which installs the >product makes some reference to compress which apparently Debian doesn't >have Yes it does, it's in the ncompress package in non-free. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a whole bunch of questions
Thanks to all trying to help me.
Sound refuses to work although adding user rland to group audio, in
fact the sound card output channel should make the boxes at least do
some noise as just tested on the other PC -t doesn't.
Does lsmod help tp clarify:
MINI:/home/rland# lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 3904 1 (autoclean)
fbcon-cfb32 3464 0 (unused)
rtl813911520 1
videodev2656 0 (unused)
sound 57592 0 (unused)
soundlow 416 0 [sound]
soundcore 2628 3 [sound]
ntfs 34184 0 (unused)
smbfs 23952 0 (unused)
vfat9008 0 (unused)
nfsd 143460 0 (unused)
nfs28352 0 (unused)
lockd 31112 1 [nfsd nfs]
sunrpc 52420 1 [nfsd nfs lockd]
binfmt_misc 3148 0
autofs 9088 0 (unused)
ide-floppy 8444 0
unix 10212 33 (autoclean)
sound is indicated as 'unused' - unused by what, by the OS?
Dave Sherohman suggested to use gom -it or any other mixer. When do I
need a mixer (my aim is just wanting to here the CDROM playing)? A
have only little knowledge in this area too.
Gnome's "gmix" complaines about "no mixers found" and asks me if I had
compiled sound into the kernel.
Last but not least - linux.aureal.com seems to be dead - sigh.
Then the problem not being able to su X-apps out of a users xterm.
What are the security risks here and why shouldn't I use xhost as
Martin B. warned?
Martin mailed me that /etc/modules.conf would be a optional config
file - however, which file does the kernel use to load a module when
booting up?
Unfortunatly I'm not able to open man ssh - (bad day, today), the
system reports:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man ssh
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1emacs19.gz is a dangling
symlink
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1emacs19: No such file or
directory
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1emacs19.gz: bad symlink or
ROFF `.so' request
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/cvsconfig.1.gz: whatis parse for
cvsconfig(1) failed
man: warning: /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz is a dangling symlink
man: can't open /usr/man/man1/ctags.1: No such file or directory
man: warning: /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
No manual entry for ssh
Additionally I'm not able to use the command "tree" I have so often
used on my old 2.0.x distribution (not debian).
These messages do not pop up anymore :
> Oct 23 16:06:12 MINI -- MARK --
> Oct 23 16:13:44 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Oct 23 16:13:44 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x40
> Oct 23 16:13:45 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Oct 23 16:13:45 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x40
> Oct 23 16:13:46 MINI kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
But the cd device is still indicated as 2x. The ATAPI interface should
provide all the information about the cd drive?
Robert
Dual O/S
When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian partitions too small. Is there any way to go back in there now and "steal" back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns - without re-loading anything ??
Re: where is old (3.2) Xfree86?
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:57:48PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > Jim, > > The TP 365xd had two different display types. If you got the TFT, you can use > the latest xfree builds. If you have the DSTN, nothing after 3.2 works. At > least this is what I've read on a couple of Thinkpad web sites. I tried using > 3.3.6 from Potato and no dice. David, I'm 90% sure that I have the DSTN monitor, which only runs at 8bpp, not the TFT which runs at 16bpp. I'll double check that tonight, but I do now have a copy of my XF86Config and it in it I've indicated that my display only does 8bpp. Anyway, you say that XFree 3.3 doesn't work for you, could you describe what happens? Do you get a blank screen with 2 horizontal lines across it? Have you tried hitting Fn-F7 after starting up X? I have to hit Fn-F7 after X start up, but other than that X works fine. Have you looked at this page http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/365xd/#X_for_me ? (Also look at http://marc.merlins.org/linux/laptops/index.html) It describes the fact that DSTN displays work with XFree 3.3 for only some BIOS versions. What BIOS version do you have? I upgraded mine to the latest available before I wiped DOS off that laptop - I'm not sure if you need DOS installed to upgrade the BIOS or not. I'll forward my XF86Config to you directly, David. HTH, Jim -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |
Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software
> It's possible that you might be able to do it through the MUA (like > mutt), but that's not the Unix Way (tm). ahah! that's what i was after *grin*. i actually have a procmail setup here, filtering debian-user into a different mailbox. it's functional enought, but i never bothered learning much of the procmail syntax. now would be a good time to read up on it. i'll have a look at maildrop too. thanks for the prompt reply! cheers damien pgp0sTs4dfZDP.pgp Description: PGP signature
2.4-pre5 especially susceptible to memory overload?
I have had more system hangs in the last two weeks than in the last four years put together . . . (OK, so that make s 2 :) The first incident was loading (well, attempting to load) an excessively large file into beav (a binary file editor). 1G file, 160Mb memory. It ran out of memory, and eventually stopped swapping. This was repeatable. Yesterday, I selected two columns on star office 5.2, copied to clipboard, and then my fingers slipped as I tried to do a paste-special. Same results. Both of these were done in userland. I can't go back to 2.2, as I have an eepro network card (only stays up a couple of seconds under load). hawk
Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:10:11AM +1100, Damien wrote: > > It's possible that you might be able to do it through the MUA (like > > mutt), but that's not the Unix Way (tm). > > ahah! that's what i was after *grin*. > > i actually have a procmail setup here, filtering debian-user into a different > mailbox. it's functional enought, but i never bothered learning much of the > procmail syntax. now would be a good time to read up on it. killfiling is the same as filtering mail into a mailbox like you do for debian lists, just use /dev/null as the mailbox. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp1IZaJNGW9v.pgp Description: PGP signature
apt-get dist-upgrade and powerfailure
I was doing an dist-upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and my power went out. Data is backed up but I had to rush out of the house to work. I didn't get to boot the system. When I do what should I expect. Will I need to format or will It begin where it left off(Just Hopeing). Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
Re: Using old libstdc library
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:24:29PM +1100, Craig Law wrote: > I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software > from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > > I've had a look at this distribution and Debian 2.2 uses > > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 > > Is it possible to go backwards and am I likely to break anything? If I cannot > go backwards should I start with the 2.1 distribution and work my way up? Both of these are in Debian 2.2, just need to find the right package (dpkg -l libstdc++\* or apt-cache search libstdc). Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: broken libc6/nss-modules in woody
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:33:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > after an "apt-get dist-upgrade" my system (woody) seems quite broken. > Apache and lprng among other daemons/progs are no longer working: > > #/etc/init.d/apache start > Starting web server: apache. > /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 171: 1603 Aborted $HTTPD > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > #tail -f /var/log/apache/error.log > apache: options.c:326: ldap_set_option: Assertion > `( ( ld )->ld_options.ldo_valid == 0x2 )' failed. Where do you see that this has anyhing to do with NSS? If anything, this is a problem in the mod_auth_ldap or similar within apache, and nothing more. AFA your load average, I think you need to provide a "ps axu" output so someone can actually give you some useful input. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:46:34AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a SMTP > server. I'm forced to look at another option... Yahoo has a SMTP > server I can use, since I do have an account with them, but I have to > pop-authenticate before I can use it. > > Does anyone know the best MTA to use that allows this? I've tried > running fetchpop just before manually flushing the queue but it > doesn't seem to like it... Right now I'm using Potato's exim. > > Thanks. Don't know if this is what you mean[*], but you can use fetchmail for it. fetchmail -p pop3 -u (or for multiple popservers you can place this in a script) After this it askes for your password and you're done :P * what is "MTA" ? Digital Overdrive -- Dutch Security Information Network /\ \\|// /\ http://www.dsinet.org / Life is a lesson, \ e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / you'll learn it when you're through. IRCnet : #dsinet / #h4h \/ \/
Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:18:20 -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > > "Scott" =3D=3D Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it > > > at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife. > > > I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been > > > worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some > > > rpms or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff. > > IIRC, both rpm and dpkg are specifically supposed to keep their hands > > off of /opt and /usr/local; they are supposed to be user only. > > debian packages never put anything in /usr/local other then empty > directories. rpms very frequently toss junk in /usr/local though. > (at least they did way back when i used redhat 5.x -> 6.0) > Depends on what is specified in the spec file, of course. Some distros even have their rpms configured to put some stuff in /opt, e.g. SuSE. But then, the /opt fs layout usually lets you keep apart things rather easily. OTOH, I believe all original Redhat rpms only use /usr (maybe not the stuff from contrib, though). Cheers, Derek
Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?
Hi, I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas with tabs. I tried using: sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving the rest of the fields with commas. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jonathan
Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:16:20 +0200, Jan Reilink writes: >On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:46:34AM -0700, >* what is "MTA" ? a Mail Transport Agent as opposed to a Mail User Agent, the MTA is responsible for delivering and accepting mail, the MUA for presenting it to the user and feeding users mail to the MTA. hth, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 Fax x533 \ \ Network Engineer - KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
RE: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?
On 24-Oct-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > with tabs. I tried using: > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving > the rest of the fields with commas. > you want sed -e 's/,//g'. sed -e 's/[[:space:]]/,/g' The [[:space:]] resolves to any whitespace (sorry, getting a tab is a little harder). The g on the end means replace this for every occurance, not just the first.
X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work
Hi, I just installed Debian woody release (because of KDE) and want to connect my Win32 computer to the linux kdm. I am using StarNet's X-Server (X-Win32) and wanted to connect to the Linux machine via XDMCP (Broadcast and query). Unfortunately the Debian machine isn't willing to host any sessions... Does anyone know where to tweak the settings so that I am able to start an X-Session on Win32? Thanks for your help Thomas -- Thomas Luft Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de [EMAIL PROTECTED], 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de
Re: upgrade; change from unstable to specific distribution?
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I added unstable to my apt/sources.list, but want to restrict so that I am > upgrading to the current new distribution only (I needed a specific > package), and not always the b-leading edge. Can I just chane from unstable > to "woody" in teh list? > This is my first crack at answering a question on this list, and I've only been using Debian myself for about a month. I could be full of crap, but here goes... The way that I would go about this would be to add the line for the woody packages to sources.list. Then run apt-get update. This will update the list of packages that apt-get knows about. Then I'd do 'apt-get install --reinstall ' since you're only concerned about a specific package. After that, you need to comment out the line for woody packages, then re-run apt-get update. There might be (read: probably is) a better way to do it, but that's how I'd do it. HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?
Sie schrieben: > Hi, > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > with tabs. I tried using: > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving > the rest of the fields with commas. > > Any suggestions? > You could use tr for this job: tr ',' '\t' < file > newfile MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgpMWtP7ZHFFt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?
Hi, >Not sure. I run gv fairly much exclusively, not Ghostview. Ok, thanks on the gs/gv stuff. > PS The gv loads xaw3dg and don't know how to remove it's effects, so I'm > back to > Ghostview for the moment... >What do you mean by "don't know how to remove its effects"? Does xaw3dg >interfere with other clients? It goes in as the default widget and makes xedit, etc, with 3D buttons. Which I don't want. And gv won't load without xaw3dg... So I'm stuck. Thanks, Jonathan
Re: installing MATLAB
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson wrote:
> Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can
> not
> get started. I get an error message:
> can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it
> in /usr/X11R6 but that did not help.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions as to what to try next.
>
>From where I'm sitting, it sounds like a LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue. I know that
the Matlab installer uses Tcl/Tk, so as a sanity check you'll want to see if
those are working. What you might want to do is do something like:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/X11R6/lib
This _should_ resolve the issue (if it's a simple matter of not being able
to find the library).
Another thing you sould be aware of is that the MATLAB support people are
fairly Linux-aware. I don't know if any kind of service contract is
necessary, but you might try giving them a call if the problem persists.
Good luck.
--
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Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
Re: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect?
Easy. read the man on dpkg. if you stored all those .deb's in one dir I believe you can jsut use: dpkg -i *.deb :) Falchion Deep Linux/Life thought of the day: The answer to most problems is man. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robin Collins wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:38:07 -0400 (EDT) > To: > From: "Robin Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: First post to list: Make .deb archive available to dselect? > > Hi, > > I've recently started using Debian after some time with SuSE and am > finding > lots about Debian I like better, not the least is dpkg/dselect/apt. > > One thing I've done is to accumulate a number of updated packages off the > Web which replace those on the potato CD. I now want to re-install on a > second machine from scratch and wonder how I can have dselect recognise > the > accumulated .debs. As far as I can see I need to create a Package.gz for > dselect's benefit but don't really know where to look for information on > how > to do this. > > Is it possible? > > Cheers, > Robin Collins > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > >
Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?
Great. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated. Jonathan
Re: Cable Modem
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Alvin Smith wrote: > Thanks. I printed out and read those last week. I am having problems > compiling the programs that come in the sb1000-1.1.2.tar. All of the > instructions seem to be for older kernels without cablemodem support. From > what I was able to gather, potato has support for cm in the kernel. Is that > why I am getting compiler errors? > Well, I know that in my case, all I had to do was tell the kernel that I wanted to use the tulip driver. I then gave it my networking information and everything has just worked. Granted, this was for a fresh Debian install, so adding CM service 'on the fly' is liable to be a little different. I can't imagine that it would be much different though. Good luck! -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
Voodoo 3 2000
Hi! I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is there a way to do it or should I just return the card? Thanks in advance, Juergen
Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Damien wrote: > i actually have a procmail setup here, filtering debian-user into a different > mailbox. it's functional enought, but i never bothered learning much of the > procmail syntax. now would be a good time to read up on it. > For procmail, you'd want to write the following recipe: :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null BTW, searching on Google for "procmail tutorial" gave a number of promising hits (as Google always does). I believe I cut my teeth on something from University of Washington, but there might be better stuff out there. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
KDE2 keybindings and Emacs
Previously with KDE 1.1.2 I had emacs working with the Meta function being my ALT key. However after installing KDE2 on debian the ALT key no longer responds in the emacs window as it is being used globally by KDE2. Even if I change the KDE keybindings emacs is not able access the ALT key. Any ideas as to how I could remove the ALT keybinding totally from KDE? Tom
Re: fullscreen video playback
There are those who would have you believe that Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > > > > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll > > > > see > > > > > > Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video > > > you're > > > playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch the Xserver to that mode, I > > > think. > > > This is obviously not even close to a good hardware-based > > > scale-and-dirther > > > solution, but at least the movies will not be played in a small rectangle > > > with huge black borders anymore :-) > > > > On a local newsgroup, someone said I need the "dbe" module loaded in order > > to let SDL to video mode switching. What package provides the dbe module? > > > > I'm running Debian 2.2, with the xfree 3.3.6 package. I can't find any > > relevant dbe files on my system. In fact, I don't even have the directory > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules on my computer. > > Well, SC3000 did that for me, under xf 3.3.6 and SDL in its default (debian) > configuration. The only thing I did was to provide the proper videomodes (as > in I can select them using Ctrl+Alt++ and Ctrl+Alt+-). I don't even know > what a dbe module is :-) > This is key: you need to have the right modelines in your XF86Config, and MPEGs tend to use odd modes such as 352x240. I don't know where you'd find modelines for these resolutions, but I'd check the mpegtv docs and website first. The program might be smart enough to pick the closest available resolution, so if the closest mode you have available is 640x400 or 512x384 it might use one of those instead.
help: how install sendmail 8.11 with old libc6
hi, I have a potato server running oracle who uses sendmail and apache from woody Last week I switched sources.list to woody to upgrade sendmail and apache. This causes upgrade of libc6, as I succesfully upgraded on a other server (a completelly woody one) I had no surprise.. but... ...oracle 8.1.6 (release 2) doesn't works with libc6 2.1.95 So I need to downgrade to libc6 2.1.3 but then apache and sendmail woodies ones doesnt' works now with libc6 2.1.3 well, which methods I have for installing apache and sendmail from woody deb-src using old libc6 ? bests, jaume.
Re: help: how install sendmail 8.11 with old libc6
24.10.2000 pisze Jaume Teixi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > well, which methods I have for installing apache and sendmail from > woody deb-src using old libc6 ? use only `deb-src' lines pointing to woody, all binary repositories data should point to potato / security-updates. Use then apt-get source sendmail and recompile. best regards, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] For a good time, call (415) 642-9483
Which are the packages for Navigator ?
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Hi, I downloaded the first potato CD image and installed it, I have no chance to download the other two CDs, so I tried searching for the netscape navigator packages in the Debian site (I just want the web browser, not the entire comunicator suite), but I get a large list of packages in the resulting search page including the word "navigator" on their name. Are all those packages needed ? There are some of them that seem to belong to diferent versions (4.5, 4.7 etc) And there are "base" packages, "motif" packages and so. Could anybody tell me which are the ones I should download for a minimal instalation of navigator ?
kmail problems
Hi, I am trying to send email with kmail but whenever I try, exim complains about DATA being sent before RCPT TO. The exact message is: Response: 503 Valid RCPT TO must preced DATA I am using a smtp conection; I can send emails with others MUA (netscape, staroffice, etc) without problems. Does somebody know what is happening? Any hint on how to fix this? Is somebody using kmail with another MTA but exim? Are you experiencing problems as well? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
Re: Voodoo 3 2000
Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the >added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is >there a way to do it or should I just return the card? It just works on my Debian unstable box, and worked when unstable was potato too, when using the SVGA X server. (Although I have lingering problems with GL support, but as my monitor is in a less than perfect condition at the moment this is the least of my worries ...) I'd say the processor is irrelevant to the graphics card support here, unless I'm missing something. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whiteboard Software
Hi all, I have a situation here at work. My cow-orkers in another state wish to use a whiteboard application in our weekly teleconferences. They of course want to use Microsoft's NetMeeting. Well, I sit behind a firewall that makes use of NetMeeting problematic. What kind of whiteboard software is out there that I could use in this situation? Is there anything that will work with NetMeeting? Thanks for any pointers you might have. -- -bob Remember the... the... uhh. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *MS 0847 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Albuquerque NM 87185-0847 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (505) 844-9297 * **
Any alternative to netscape for gnome ?
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Another question, I use gnome, and I would like to know if there is any other browser with at least JavaScript suport for GTK that does not need/use the mozilla engine, something more "native", more gnome/gtk dependent. Thanks in advance and excuse my english
Re: Idea: Master Debian FAQ (newbie-centric)
There is allready a lot of documentation around. Rewriting all of that would be pointless. It might be a good idea to create a big FAQ-index. eg: Disks & Drives Q How do I read a file from my Windows partition? A Mount package, Windows-To-Linux HOWTO Q How do I access my ZIP drive? A Mount package, ZIP-drive mini-HOWTO Networking Q How do I configure my network? A netbase package, ifconfig package, Network HOWTO -- Casper Gielen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xfree86 symlinks gone
One day I attempted to get xinerama and XFree86 4.0.1 working on my box. I copied all the files from XF3 to a backup location, attempted to get XF4 up and running. I failed. And since this is my work machine, I needed XF3 back for the following Monday. I removed the new XF4 stuff, and copied back the old configurations and binaries. Now the sym links are broken and I see error messages like this when I apt-get updates: Setting up libgnomeui32 (1.2.8-helix1) ... ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 is not a symlink What is the best way to restore the symlinks? Thanks, Rob.
Re: Voodoo 3 2000
The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the base system from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by issuing an 'apt-get install task-x-window-system', I got an internal error after downloading the necessary files (if I was still at a download speed <=56K, the machine wouldn't be in one piece anymore, making my question moot). I think I'll obtain a CD and try again. But say, don't you have to specify the card you want to use when you set the X system up? Or did Debian autoprobe your Voodoo card? If you actually had to specify a card, which one did you pick? Thanks, Juergen Colin Watson wrote: > Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to get a Voodoo 3 2000 to run under Debian 2.2 - with the > >added bonus that this instance would have to run on a 300Mhz AMD K6. Is > >there a way to do it or should I just return the card? > > It just works on my Debian unstable box, and worked when unstable was > potato too, when using the SVGA X server. (Although I have lingering > problems with GL support, but as my monitor is in a less than perfect > condition at the moment this is the least of my worries ...) > > I'd say the processor is irrelevant to the graphics card support here, > unless I'm missing something. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Program started from cron cannot open display:?
I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but in my mail report from the cron it says: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: And the program won't come up. My display is :0 and yes, X is running. Can anyone give me a hint here? -- * John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ICQ: 7325429 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * web: http://john.pp.se
Squid problems
I have a squid proxy server that wont go to a specific site. The site its not going to is www.quill.com and i am sure that the only problem is the squid because I can get to it without going through the proxy server. Anyone have any ideas on why this wouldnt be working? What happens on the users side of things is the site never comes up and it locks the browser up. I tried using a ACL and telling it to allow the site direct contact...but that didnt work either. I am not seeing anything in the squid logs saying access denied or anything, so im not sure what is wrong. Any insight of what im missing here would be appreciated. Thanks, Tom
Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:50:23PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > > with tabs. I tried using: > > > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > > the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving > > the rest of the fields with commas. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > You could use tr for this job: > > tr ',' '\t' < file > newfile just a word of caution: if your ex-database file is in CSV format (as for example used by some M$ programs) then you might get problems, if there are strings in your data containing commas, as in 1,"Smith, Joe",3, ... The tr method replaces *every* comma, so it's a little too simple for the case mentioned above. If you are sure that this cannot happen, then just forget about this mail... -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
Re: deb package documentation
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:26:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > > I'm actually looking for the installation and > > configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. > > I want to have it read and noted before I even try to > > install debian and set it up. > > i've had occasion to wish i could've read the package documents > BEFORE downloading and installing, as well. afaict, debian.org > doesn't accomodate that. You can always download the deb file, and then issue the following command dpkg-deb -x .deb For example, to look at the contents of my latest version of bash: dpkg-deb -x bash_2.04-7_i386.deb /tmp which will create a /tmp/bin, /tmp/usr, and /tmp/etc which then in turn contains all of the files and directories in the bash deb. Other options inside depkg-deb will give you access to individual files and packing lists for the deb.
Re: aside: killfiles & mailing software
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 11:30:16PM +1100, Damien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > He's earned his way into my killfile. Fool me twice, shame on me > > > > And now mine. > > as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you > two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i've been told nothing beats gnus procmail, via Lars Wirzenius's 'spamfilter' package (apt-get install spamfilter). Note that spamfilter is extremeley aggressive. It very nearly got me kicked off one mailing list for labling legit posts as spam. It's still doing a couple of things behind my back. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpI1QBG3uYfa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dual O/S
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:44:46 -0500, Cavaiani, Don said: > > When I split up my hard drive between WIN98 and Debian, I made the Debian > partitions too small. Is there any way to go back in there now and "steal" > back some of the empty space that WIN98 now owns - without re-loading > anything You should be able to resize your Win partition with GNU parted. To shrink the Win partition you must first defrag it and move any hidden files that may be near the end of the partition. I used a free trial copy of Diskeeper from execsoft to do this because i could'nt get 'fips' to do it. That seems to be the sticky part. Once you can shrink Win then the Linux partions can be added with 'parted'. -- gEEk||dOOd^Deb+ian&&XFce$everything goes(-_-)
Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:19:24PM +0200, thus spake Moritz Schulte: > Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My ISP is going down the toilet (again) and can't/won't manage a > > SMTP server. I'm forced to look at another option... [...] Right > > now I'm using Potato's exim. > > Then, why don't your let your local MTA deliver the mails directly, > without a smarthost? > > moritz > -- > /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ > * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. > */ > Moritz, If you can give me/us all the rundown on how to acheive this, or point to some good docs that would be great. Tried ages ago on mandrake but ran foul of the DUL list TIA Glyn M -- * None can love freedom heartily but good men; * *the rest love not freedom but license * *John Milton *
Re: pop-authenticate before SMTP?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:00:17PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Moritz, If you can give me/us all the rundown on how to acheive this, or > point to some good docs that would be great. Tried ages ago on mandrake but > ran foul of the DUL list You'll still run into problems with the DUL. The simplest thing to do would probably be to use the relay provided by your ISP (which shouldn't need any authentication) or use a real authentication method for outbound mail such as client certificates in TLS or UUCP over TCP. If you must stick with POP before SMTP then you might find that configuring fetchmail and then starting it in daemon mode from your ip-up scripts before the MTA starts trying to deliver outbound mail would do the trick. You may find putting in a sleep before firing the queue helps. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpxCT9HDCbT6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Help on coma done--Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who helped me out on the comma to tab replacement. A lot of grat suggestions and funny enough, not two alike! Jonathan
Re: Voodoo 3 2000
> The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the > base system > from floppies. Then, when I tried to install X by issuing an 'apt-get install > task-x-window-system', I got an internal error after downloading the > necessary files > (if I was still at a download speed <=56K, the machine wouldn't be in one > piece > anymore, making my question moot). I think I'll obtain a CD and try again. > But say, don't you have to specify the card you want to use when you set the > X system > up? Or did Debian autoprobe your Voodoo card? If you actually had to specify > a card, > which one did you pick? > > Thanks, > Juergen I thought 3dfx has drivers for using XFree 4.0.x? Could someone kindly point out which CD in the 2.2 distr containes the XFree 4.0.x packages? I'm using 3.3.6 with a ATI Rage 128 and this server works indeed very well but lacks OpenGL support. Robert
Re: Which are the packages for Navigator ?
Ezequiel Reyes wrote: > chance to download the other two CDs, so I tried searching for the netscape > navigator packages in the Debian site (I just want the web browser, not the > entire comunicator suite), but I get a large list of packages in the > resulting search page including the word "navigator" on their name. Are all > those packages needed ? There are some of them that seem to belong to > diferent versions (4.5, 4.7 etc) > And there are "base" packages, "motif" packages and so. Could anybody tell > me which are the ones I should download for a minimal instalation of > navigator ? Just installed Communicator 4.73 from 3 (!) CD's out of the 2.2distr using dselect. You should use dselect or apt-get to have all dependancies resolved. I never installed from web though. Robert
Re: Whiteboard Software
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:50:57AM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > software is out there that I could use in this situation? Is there apt-cache search whiteboard says: | nte - shared text editor designed for use on the Mbone. | vat - LBNL audio conferencing tool over the internet. YMMV. > anything that will work with NetMeeting? The OpenH323 project has an H.323 client which interoprates with NetMeeting for voice and video calls but won't do the whiteboard. No H.323 client is going to interact well with a firewall - H.323 relies on dynamically assigned UDP and TCP connections in both directions, which makes it pretty much impossible to pass through a firewall safely unless the firewall understands H.323 or you run a H.323 to H.323 gateway on the firewall. If you're using NAT the situation is worse (it's not just a case of opening the firewall, it's just basically impossible to make the connection without the active assistance of the NAT box). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpzNHwjG3hpN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xfree86 symlinks gone
Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [cut] > Setting up libgnomeui32 (1.2.8-helix1) ... > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 is not a symlink > > What is the best way to restore the symlinks? Try running ldconfig (as root). I think that should to the trick. Hubert
Re: fullscreen video playback
matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > Is there any way that I can play video on my Linux system in *fullscreen* > mode? By fullscreen, I mean that the images are scaled to the size of my > entire screen. > > I have smpeg (plaympeg) version 0.4.0 and SDL version 1.1.5 as well as > mtvp (MpegTV) version 1.1.0.7 on my system. They both advertise > "fullscreen" but the result is not what I described above. Rather than > scaling the movie, the video is played back at the original size, but with > a giant black border. So my screen is wholly covered in black, but only > about 1/10 of the screen is actually video. Try installing xmms (Debian package available) and the xmms-smpeg plug-in (available from the xmms home page - www.xmms.org). It seems to scale the movie to fit the whole screen. BTW, it requires smpeg 0.4.1. Also, SDL 1.1.6 has just been released, and they recommend all 1.1.5 users to upgrade. Hubert
Re: Debian crashes: sw, hw or malicious hacker/virus problems?
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:57:59AM +0200, Jean Orloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, dear debian fellows! > > Please forgive my paranoid anonymity, in view of the last section of > this message. > > 1) My problem: > > I have happily used debian since 1995 (0.93R6 if I recall?). But since I > installed 2.1 on my new PC at work, about a year ago, that machine > undergoes about a crash per month in average. Nothing to scare a > windblows user, of course, but unbearable for someone who knows this > should not be so. Especially as these crashes are unrecoverable: screen > frozen, mouse/keyboard frozen (no vt switching nor clean reboot > possible) and even no access from outside through the network. Thus no > alternative to the brutal power switchoff, with subsequent fsck'ing of > the whole disk. > > When does this happen? Always with a heavy load (2-3 users on a 128Mb > pentium 400, each with several windows, netscape, emacs etc + some > compilation or latex2html going on); always with at least one remote > ssh login. I also sometimes had the impression of the mouse freezing > temporarily before the total crash, but you know how short time > causality can be violated in the human brain. I've had interaction effects with several kernels and modules, largely in the 2.2.10 - 2.2.15 series. You might want to check this. 2.2.17 and 2.2.4pre8 have done well by me so far. There are also reports of mobos which are simply flakey. See recent posts to the misc-OpenBSD mailing list for an example, search web for others. http://www.openbsd.org/. > 2) Software problems? > > In the beginning, I attributed this to the network interface card > (3C905C=Tornado) that was not officially supported by Donald Becker's > 3C59x driver. See above. > 3) Hardware problems? > > Bored with switching kernels, I followed the hardware problem track. > Despite a successful memory test at boot, Means *absolutely nothing*. > maybe one of the 2 memory bars was bad? I ran during the summer on > half memory, but it ended up by a crash again. I switched the memory > bar: problem again a month later. Maybe the NIC slot was bad? I > switched with the soundcard last week. No crash yet, but I have > reasons to believe it won't help. Try a memory testing program, and/or boot your system with various memory configurations at the LILO prompt -- you may be able to isolate the point at which memory does (or doesn't) effect system stability. > 4) Hacker/virus problems? > > During the very first hour of the very first install, I got port-scan > attacked (see log below). Bad point for debian, I thought: what is the > probability of a PC being attacked in the first hour of its connection > to the net? Looks more probable that the attack was triggered by the > install process! Unlikely. > Anyway, the ports for telnet (22) and ftp (??) were filtered by the > local router (except for local machines), I was not running any > daemon, so I was not too scared. After watching the logs for about a > week, I opened the machine to full internet exclusively through ssh > connections which are not filtered by the local router. This data isn't too helpful w/o an externally run scan on your system. 'nmap -sS' or 'namp -O' should produce useful results. Also netstat output (though I don't know specific command line switches which you should use). > Until last week, I had no reason to think of hacker origin to my > crashes. But last week, I got 2 crashes. And I noticed something very > curious in the accounting logs. Among the last processes that finished > less than 5 minutes before the crash, there was a bunch of NAMELESS root > processes, that started at 0 unix time (Jan 1 1970) and lasted 0 second > (!?). E.g: > > # lastcomm > > S20acct S root ?? 0.01 secs Thu Oct 19 19:40 > acctonS root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Oct 19 19:40 > ---> reboot > root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 01:00 > root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 01:00 > root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 01:00 > Suspicious, no? No idea. Not familiar with lastcomm and its output. I'd try booting a known good system and checking its initial output. It's possible that some kernel psuedoprocesses might appear w/o names. It's also possible (probable?) that this is an indication of bad data in internal process tables, which could be a likely precursor of a crash. > But even more curious: my previous machine (call it PC2), with the > same install, but a totally different (older) hardware. Users from my > machine (call it PC1) often ssh-log to PC2 and vice-versa. > Furthermore, during the portscan-attacked install, the new PC1 was > bearing the name and address the previously existing PC2. Anyway, for > the first time last week, PC2 endured 2 crashes too. On one of these > crashes, there were nameless-timeless root processes just before the > crash
Re: fullscreen video playback
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Oct 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: > Try installing xmms (Debian package available) and the xmms-smpeg plug-in > (available from the xmms home page - www.xmms.org). It seems to scale the > movie to fit the whole screen. BTW, it requires smpeg 0.4.1. Also, SDL 1.1.6 > has just been released, and they recommend all 1.1.5 users to upgrade. > This might work, but is not optimal if you have a not-blazingly-fast processor. If that case, it might be better to make some modelines for the sizes of the videostreams (eg 352x288, 320x240, ...) and insert these in your X config. That way, video will be played at fullscreen, without additional load for the CPU. - -- Body by Nautilus, Brain by Mattel. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine iEYEARECAAYFAjn1zoUACgkQjGz8qD1yPRBpuACfW9xOR7dcbNpJUGGM5lcn4Lve /+cAoKF/nubskEWrcudyR0Lo9qhkH7EW =1Vyc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:39:53AM +0200, John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but in > my > mail report from the cron it says: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > And the program won't come up. My display is :0 and yes, X is running. > > Can anyone give me a hint here? xauth? (you asked for a hint). -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpd0zYbGCIeA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xfree86 symlinks gone
Hubert Chan said these things on 20001024.1151: | Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | [cut] | > Setting up libgnomeui32 (1.2.8-helix1) ... | > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink | > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 is not a symlink | > ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 is not a symlink | > | > What is the best way to restore the symlinks? | | Try running ldconfig (as root). I think that should to the trick. I got the same errors as above. Can I remove X and re-install it? Is there a better way, maybe apt-get it and just over-write the current X files?
Re: Help: gv not reading *.gz files?
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > >Not sure. I run gv fairly much exclusively, not Ghostview. > > Ok, thanks on the gs/gv stuff. > > > PS The gv loads xaw3dg and don't know how to remove it's effects, so I'm > > back to > > Ghostview for the moment... > > >What do you mean by "don't know how to remove its effects"? Does xaw3dg > >interfere with other clients? > > It goes in as the default widget and makes xedit, etc, with 3D buttons. > Which I don't want. And gv won't load without xaw3dg... So I'm stuck. Have you tried poking around /usr/doc/xaw*? -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgp4KLArGBDFR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Thomas Luft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Debian woody release (because of KDE) and want to > connect my Win32 computer to the linux kdm. I am using StarNet's > X-Server (X-Win32) and wanted to connect to the Linux machine via > XDMCP (Broadcast and query). Unfortunately the Debian machine isn't > willing to host any sessions... Does anyone know where to tweak the > settings so that I am able to start an X-Session on Win32? $ apt-get install xdm AFAIK, other display managers don't support XDMCP, except possibly WDM, 'coz WindowMaker's just so fscking cool . Launch X on the Windows box. You'll want something like the -direct, -indirect, or -query options, forget which 'zactly. Alternative is simply to start an X session and launch stuff by hand from a telnet (ugh) or ssh (yeah!) session. Plus you don't have to worry about your windowmanager crapping out. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgp71rIWV3EhV.pgp Description: PGP signature
